Antratsyt: Perseverance Day (2021)
Interdisciplinary musical film performance
Antratsyt: Perseverance Day, premiered at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Kyiv in October 2021 within the project, House of Mining: an international co-production produced by Touchpoint NGO (UA) and Grand Duke Films (UK), in association with Wild Theatre and with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and House of Europe.
Oleksiy is an ordinary miner. After losing his best friend, Ruslan, during a mining accident, he becomes wracked with remorse and guilt. One day, however, when another miner takes his photograph during their annual holiday celebration, the camera’s flash suddenly transports him into the past. Oleksiy discovers that he is able to travel through time and intervene in events, changing the course of history forever.
Written and Directed by Pavlo Yurov and Vicki Thornton
Images: Oleksii Tovpyha
Credits
Performance
Pavlo Yurov, script and direction
Kate Lane, set and costume design
Margaryta Kulichova (Grisly Faye), music and sound design
Oleksiy Busko, choreography
Viacheslav Soboliev, sound director
Taras Kovach, set construction
Valeriia Buradzhyieva, assistant director
Veronika Finina, costume assistant
Yaroslava Kravchenko, PR
Anastasiya Gernega, project management
Film and Live Broadcast
Vicki Thornton, script and film direction
Yarema Malashchuk, director of photography
Rimma Mareychenko, line producer
Andrii Nidzelskyi, sound recordist
Vitaliy Garkaviy, boom operator
Sasha Oduvanchikov, live edit and streaming engineer
Kirill Zhorov, live edit and streaming assistant
Artem Nadiozhyn, camera operator
Oleg Bezbakh, gaffer
Cast & Musicians
Natalka Kobizka, Anastasiia Kasilova, Oleksii Dorychevskyi, Roman Savchenko, Yevhen Chernykov, Ihor Aronov, Oksana Leuta, Anastasiia Metalnykova, Ruslan Hablo, Mykyta Skrypka, Kostiantyn Kyrylenko, Artemii Alokhin, Kostiantyn Trembovetskyi
Music: Margaryta Kulichova, Andrii Hazin, Oleksandr Ivancheskul
Choir: Folk vocal ensemble "NADIYA" (“HOPE”)
Live-Streamed Broadcast
Broadcast live on Saturday 23rd October 2021
Press
Lyudnova, Anna. ‘What is the Ukrainian National Idea? Premiere of Antratsyt: Perseverance Day, Review’ in ArtMess (7 November 2021)
Kabatsy, Maria. ‘Antratsyt: Perseverance Day: A Musical About Miners Will Be Shown in Kyiv’ in NV.ua (23 October 2021)
‘Ukrainian Miners through British Eyes’, NPHU Western Donbas News (April 2018)
Schokan, Anna. ‘The USSR Collapsed into Private Soviet Unions: A Musical About Miners, Stood Naked’ in Gazeta.ua (1 November 2021)
Vergelis, Oleg. ‘A sensational premiere is being prepared in Kyiv: an international musical about strikes and miners' love’ in Glavcom.ua (6 October 2021)
‘The Musical Antratsyt: Perseverance Day: What Miners Sing About’ in Cedra (27 October 2021)
Bereza, Yuri. ‘Cinema, Musical, Truth: Ukrainian and British artists create a project about Donbass Miners’ in Ukrayinska Pravda (15 October 2020)
